Experimenting with a new website & some snaps of early music lessons this term...

Stage 3 Music classes

Remembering a friend...

Kindy boys

...freshly shaven :-)

Eric & Hugh

Busy

Been oh so busy...I guess life is busy is it not? I've been enjoying my one-day-a-week job at school as the Stage 3 Music Teacher & have spent (probably too much) time planning things for them & getting my head around having my own classes - complete with programs due & assessments etc. After each lesson I am so keen to improve things, learn more, fix things that didn't work, try new things, send positive notes home to parents, fix up the room etc etc. Reading lots of Blogs & sites about education. Thinking about all my weaknesses & wanting to get better...then there is the whole private piano student part of teaching too. I've taken on three students this year also. They are wonderful but are all requiring extra preparation time as one is in Yr 12, one in Yr 10, one sitting for a senior grade. They are wonderful enthusiastic high school students & are a blessing to teach...

The area around my computer/desk at home is absolutely ridicuolous. It is way too messy & it's getting hard to find things. My list of things to do is HUGE & seems to be getting bigger by the day. There is a birthday party to plan for Eric.

I am feeling quite seedy today so am taking things slowly. But as my mind swirls with hundreds of different thoughts & ideas, my tummy is swirling also & that's not such a pleasant sensation...

can a bloke be any happier...

...than in his shed?

All is well...

David appointments went well at Westmead yesterday.

I always feel relieved to hear that he's going well.

And he spoke well to all the potential transplant patients!!

I love him so much...

Transplant Information Day...

D is speaking at the Westmead Transplant Information Day today. After his transplant he said "I'd love to do that one day, to remind people that there is always hope". Here he is. He was diagnosed Feb 20th 2007!! Here he is Feb 2010 & he had walked such a long hard road...praying he's a blessing & encouragement to everyone there.

We were both TERRIFIED about what lay ahead when we went to this info day years ago. Our GP drove us in for moral support & D's best mate was there...he threw up on the way home from the fear churning around inside him...

He also has a check up today. I never get TOO nervous on these days, but there's always a very small voice in the back of my mind reminding me that "things can happen". It's been such a huge journey, & it continues on. It's not like having a growth cut out, you get hit with some drugs & then there is a recovery time...this is a "new" kind of normal in a new body with new issues & a new quality of health...it's been very eye opening. Yet D is going incredibly well considering what a HUGE ordeal he's been through & some people don't get through to this point...

the first day...

...learning to explore the world! :-)